Visa Predicted the Super Bowl Teams Before the Season Barely Began Ravens, 49ers focus of Fan Offers adsBy Tim Nudd

January 23, 2013, 12:38 PM EST

The Harbaugh brothers may not have seen it coming, but Visa did. Back in the fall, the company broke two ads from TBWA\Chiat\Day advertising its Visa NFL Fan Offers program. The focus of those ads? The San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens.

It's a nice bit of good fortune for a brand whose Super Bowl campaign stumbled just a tad two years ago, when one of the four men lauded in Visa ads for never having missed a Super Bowl ended up missing it due to illness.

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The Harbaugh brothers may not have seen it coming, but Visa did. Back in the fall, the company broke two ads from TBWA\Chiat\Day advertising its Visa NFL Fan Offers program. The focus of those ads? The San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens.

It's a nice bit of good fortune for a brand whose Super Bowl campaign stumbled just a tad two years ago, when one of the four men lauded in Visa ads for never having missed a Super Bowl ended up missing it due to illness.